Kapok is booming-the record of poverty alleviation along the border of Guangxi

　　Kapok is booming-the record of poverty alleviation along the border of Guangxi

　　Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, October 27 -

　　Xinhua News Agency reporters Xiang Zhiqiang and Chen Yifan

　　In southern Xinjiang and Guangxi, the border line of thousands of kilometers twists and turns, and tall and straight kapok trees stand majestically along the line.

This is a beautiful landscape with wonderful mountains and beautiful waters, but it has also been marked by poverty everywhere due to remote obstructions. There are 8 border counties (cities, districts), and 5 are key counties for national poverty alleviation and development or counties in the rocky desertification area of ​​Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou. .

　　From integrating funds to build roads and diverting water to transforming houses to stabilize housing, from promoting characteristic planting and breeding based on local conditions to developing border trade based on advantages, from moving out of the mountains to work in factories to renewing concepts and cutting off the roots of poverty... After winter and spring, new development under the kapok tree The era of poverty alleviation has always been in full swing.

From the small road to Kangzhuang Avenue

　　Shuinong Village, Nabu Village, Baishen Township, Napo County, is a Miao village located zero kilometers away from the border. Because of the barrier of mountains and the high altitude, the villagers here were once called "people living in the clouds."

Yangchang Road, thatched houses, kerosene lamps... Xinhua News Agency reporters once used cameras to record the poor scene here.

　　In 2008, the local government built brick houses for the villagers in Shuinongtun, repaired gravel roads, and built a new reservoir. The life of the villager Tao Meiyang's family improved and they bought their first motorcycle.

　　Since the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation in 2015, the production and living conditions of the people in Shuinong have been upgraded again: every family lives in more stable buildings, adds larger reservoirs, and installs water tanks for water storage and purification at the front and back of the house. Assembled reservoirs, and solar street light poles have been erected on the spacious and hardened Tongtun Road.

　　With the help of the government, Tao Meiyang now raises 6 cows and 3 pigs. Last year, it earned more than 7,000 yuan from selling 1 cow.

"We also have border subsidies, subsistence allowances, industry subsidies, and education subsidies for children's studies, and their lives get better year after year." Tao Meiyang broke his fingers and counted various benefits to reporters.

　　It didn’t rain for three or four months, and the whole village’s draught relied on a mountain spring with limited water. A few years ago, Tao Huangbao, a farmer in Guantun, Damo Village, Longbang Town, Jingxi City, was always worried about water: there were not enough people. What about sheep?

　　At the beginning of 2018, the villagers found the water source after going through twists and turns.

In July of that year, the Longgang District of Shenzhen City, which assisted Damo Village, invested 1.6 million yuan to build 5 high-level pools and a 7.5-km-long water diversion pipeline.

Tao Huangbao opened the faucet at home, and when the clear water rushed out, his worries were wiped out, and the number of goat breeding increased to more than 100.

　　After several years of construction, the total length of highways in the border area of ​​Guangxi exceeded 8,000 kilometers, realizing a leap from the small road to Kangzhuang Avenue. The 8 counties (cities, districts) in the border "county-county highway" and "township-township asphalt (cement) road". Every village has roads".

The rate of hardened roads in towns and villages in border areas reached 100%, and the penetration rate of rural tap water exceeded 80%.

　　Improved infrastructure, convenient living conditions, and border subsidy policies have made more people willing to live on the front line of the border, and many poor households have moved from poorer homes to areas 0 to 3 kilometers away from the border.

Enriching the "pocket bag"

　　Looking at the gratifying Banlangen, Feng Yanei, a Yao villager, finally realized the harvest from the land.

Feng Yanai's home is located in Ximatun, Nianjing Village, Pingmeng Town, Napo County.

The mountains are rocky, the soil is thin, and the per capita arable land is less than 0.3 mu. For a long time, the villagers could only grow a little drought-tolerant corn in the crevices.

　　"To prosper the border and enrich the people, thank the People's Liberation Army for farming"-in the 1990s, after the troops cleared mines, they leveled out a piece of land of about 10 acres in the mountain lanes and handed it over to the villagers for free cultivation.

In 2019, the local party committee and government implemented a wall-building and soil preservation project around Ximatun in 2019, and began to "build land" again, transforming 80 acres of slope stone nests into land, and contracted out to farmers to plant Banlangen.

　　Nowadays, standing on the mountain pass of Jintun, looking around, there are contiguous Isatis root planting bases on both sides of the hillside, and above it is a newly-built farm with one shed, and the buildings built on the hillside are scattered.

　　In recent years, while actively improving infrastructure conditions, the party committees and governments along the border have developed characteristic planting and breeding industries, border trade and processing industries in accordance with local conditions, developed public welfare posts, and gradually expanded channels for increasing the income of the people.

　　Facing the morning sun, Liu Yanqing took brisk steps to work in the poverty alleviation workshop just across the road from home.

Behind her is the Anfu Community, the resettlement site for poverty alleviation in Aidian Town, Ningming County, and the Aidian Port and Border Trade Import and Export Processing and Logistics Zone are not far away.

　　Before moving out, Liu Yanqing's husband was ill and the child was young, and the burden of the family rested on her alone.

In order to earn money, she had to go to the mountains and forests to cut pine resin 3 hours away from home, and could not go home for a half month.

In 2018, through the relocation of poverty alleviation, Liu Yanqing's hard life finally came to an end.

In addition to enjoying border subsidies, she also became an "office worker", participating in border trade processing at the door of her house, and earning 100 yuan a day in salary.

　　At present, the Anfu Community of Aidian Town has resettled 513 poor households from 5 towns and villages who have registered and registered. The local area vigorously promotes the construction of poverty alleviation workshops, and establishes a frontier mutual aid group according to local conditions to guide the border residents to participate in the border mutual market, cargo yard loading and unloading, and imported products landing processing .

　　Longzhou County has even tasted the sweetness of developing businesses in different places.

The county takes the five major industries of “planting, breeding, trade and tourism” as the core, intensifying the construction of “double high” sugar cane bases, introducing enterprises to drive village collectives and farmers to develop cattle and sheep breeding, and forming more than 200 border trade mutual aid groups to drive 8,000 poor households Many people have increased their income through transportation, loading and unloading, developing red tourism, building poverty alleviation industrial parks, etc. The poverty incidence rate has dropped from 31.79% in 2014 to 0.25% in 2019, becoming the first national poverty alleviation and development work focus in Guangxi. county.

Polish up a more beautiful border

　　After continuous fighting, the face of poverty in the border areas of Guangxi has been fundamentally changed.

From 2016 to 2019, 387,700 poor people in 373 poor villages in 8 border counties (cities, districts) in Guangxi were lifted out of poverty, and the incidence of poverty dropped to 0.69%.

　　On the road to poverty alleviation, how can the development of border areas continue to advance?

Relying on ecology, culture, education, opening up... Guided by the new development concept, the border areas of Guangxi are gradually embarking on a new path of sustainable development.

　　Nong Haizhong, who has been a sugarcane farmer for more than 20 years, never imagined that birds in deep mountains and dense forests could also get rid of poverty and become rich.

Nonggang Village, Zhubu Township, Longzhou County, where he is located, is located in Nonggang National Nature Reserve. In recent years, the local area has used the unique resource advantages of the reserve to build a popular science base for Nonggang ecological bird watching and innovatively promote the implementation of "bird watching economy" Ecological poverty alleviation, 730 people from 166 households in the village (including 47 poor households with 231 people) participated in the village, and increased income by providing transportation, accommodation, guides and other services.

　　Education is the key to cutting off the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

By accelerating the standardization of compulsory education schools, fully implementing student funding policies, strengthening the construction of the teaching team, and implementing the eight major projects of education revitalization, the main indicators of education in border areas have grown rapidly.

　　In Jingxi City, the local area actively used the "two-post-children" policy to help poor children who failed to continue their education after graduating from junior high school and high school to study in technical schools to achieve skilled employment and stable employment. Since 2017, 557 "post-two students" have been organized. Participate in skills training.

　　Openness is the advantage of border areas.

In recent years, a series of new open platforms have landed on the border of Guangxi. The construction of key development and opening test zones in Dongxing and Pingxiang has been advanced in depth, the key development and opening test zone in Baise has been approved, and the construction of the Chongzuo area in Guangxi Free Trade Zone has started. The vigorous development of trade, mutual trade and on-site processing trade provides a solid guarantee for the consolidation of the achievements in poverty alleviation.